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They won three of those games, with their final such victory being the only previous title game appearance in the Super Bowl era. Baltimore won the AFC East with an 11–2–1 regular season record and shut out the AFC Central champion Cincinnati Bengals 17–0 at Memorial Stadium in the divisional round to advance to the AFC Championship game.
A Baltimore-based team would finally return to the AFC Championship Game in 2000, which Baltimore's current team (the Ravens) won en route to their first Super Bowl championship. Six NFL teams have been enfranchised since 1971, four of which reached a title game (two in each conference) in less than the six seasons it took Miami to do so.
The redesigned Lamar Hunt Trophy, awarded since 2010–11 season. The structure of the NFL playoffs has changed several times since 1970. At the end of each regular season, the top teams in the AFC qualify for the postseason, including all division champions (three division winners from the 1970–71 to 2001–02 seasons; four since the 2002–03 season) and a set number of "wild card" teams ...
Beginning with the 1933 season, the NFL featured a championship game, played between the winners of its two divisions.In this era, if there was a tie for first place in the division at the end of the regular season, a one-game playoff was used to determine the team that would represent their division in the NFL Championship Game.
The league had no divisions in 1949. The site of the championship game during the first three was determined just as it was in the NFL—a divisional rotation. In 1949, the league held a four-team playoff, with home field based upon won-lost record. The Browns, led by Quarterback Otto Graham, won all four of the league championship games.
The Ravens rolled to a dominant 34-10 win, which punched their first ticket to a conference championship game since they won the Super Bowl in the 2012 season. As the top seed in the AFC, the ...
This brought Denver's 11-game winning streak to an end and sent the Ravens to their third AFC title game in the last five years. It was the sixth double overtime game in history, the first since 2003 (a game that coincidentally also featured head coach John Fox ), and the fourth-longest game in NFL history at a total of 76:42 of game time,. [ 13 ]
With a 29-10 win Wednesday over the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Chiefs (15-1) clinched the No. 1 seed in the conference and home-field advantage. It marks the fourth time under coach Andy Reid and ...